It has long been assumed that the decline in weekly congregations is down to Britons losing their religion and abandoning church. A YouGov survey of 1,660 people commissioned by The Times found that the number of those going to church may have grown in the past year. Yet it also found that people are attending less often, pointing to a generation of occasional worshippers. The number of people with no belief in God fell, while faith in God was steady and the number of agnostics and those with a “spiritual” belief increased. The survey also found a slight rise in…

Source: The Times December 27, 2018 23:48 UTC